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In the USA, organic chemistry is required by the vast majority of medical schools, and organic chemistry I is a prereq for biochemistry in most colleges.

Your average applicant is going to have Orgo1/2 and biochemistry though.

As far as the questions go, one was a multistep synthesis (It seemed to screw up markovnikov vs anti markovnikov addition if I had to guess where it went wrong).

It didnt seem to do well with HNMR, or Fischer projections, it also got a mechanism of ring breaking wrong.

It did get the question right regarding stability of chair conformations though.

I cant post the exact questions as im not home where my old Ochem book is, but those are the jists.

It seems to struggle with the more visual problems.

Edit: The AAMC has a list of requirements for med schools, so far I've seen... 3 that dont require Ochem and use biochem in its place? Thats certainly not all of them, but theyre also certainly a extremely small minority. Although again, most universities also have Ochem1 as a prereq for Biochem. And if you're college is an ACS compliant university, they'll make you take ochem 2 for biochemistry also. Which is lame.

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